According to the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator, if I was born to Sarah Palin, my name would've been:

Rake Trinket Palin

If this were my name, I'd have to go by my middle name because "Rake" definitely sounds like a male name, with the multiple connotations of the word.

This is kind of funny to me as in a high school theater class I was a clown ( Read more... )

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Here are three good articles.

1. This Is Your Nation on White Privilege by Tim Wise

2. Can You Say "Sexist"? by Anna Quindlen

3.  Sarah Palin's Myth of America by Joe Klein

I'm putting these here because I keep wanting to refer back to these three in particular, and I keep ( Read more... )

I thought Michelle Obama gave a very nice, stirring speech at the convention last night. I found it quite moving at times. I thought the beginning was a bit too much about her brother (who cares?) but she wove it all in by the end. It was a little awkward at the beginning, too, before she warmed up. I also think it was a little silly with the girls ( Read more... )

 I'm very happy today that Mark Shauer beat out Sharon Renier in the primary and will be facing off against our republican incumbant for U.S. representative to congress in the fall.  Here's what Sharon Renier had to say in today's paper:

"'It would have been nice if more people would have turned out other than Calhoun County,'' said Renier, a Munith ( Read more... )

Today's a primary election, with ballot issues, too, for us.  So this is to tell you all to remember to vote!

Mary C. Curtis writes in the Washington post, in an article titled, "The Loud Silence of Feminists," "Michelle Obama has become an issue in the presidential campaign even though she isn't running for anything. An educated, successful lawyer, devoted wife and caring mother has been labeled "angry" and unpatriotic and snidely referred to as Barack ( Read more... )